The Democrat. (Scotland Neck, Halifax Co., N.C.) 1884-1896, 1887-11-04
TURKISH SCHOOLS.
Teaching the Young Idea in the
Ottoman Empire.
The Branches Taught in Pri-
mary and Normal Schools.

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In the primary schools bows and girls
are educated together. The teachers
are taken from the priesthood. and from
the graduates of the theolocical univer-
sities who have learned to read the s.Ko-
ran. - which is written in Arabic, and
which all GOOD Mussclmen must learn
how TO read Persons of this class Of
teachers are conscoucntIv STRINGENT re-
lioionists. and some Of them are quite
fanaticaI IF the puniI does not acquire
much disciDline or information pertain
ing to modern material progress, it is
because the twig is not bent in that di-
rection.
A urinary school is cOmnosed of one
or two rooms or sshoIcg in the wall"
with three divans for tbe nuniIs and q
scat for the teacher. The pupils sit
cross-leppcd in 4 line on the divans,
hCldino their books on their knees and
recitine all at the same time, in loud,
shrill voice. They learnsgrammar and the
four rules Of arithmetic
When thew are able to read from the
Koran a little, they take I'D writing, and,
as there are no WRITING tables or desks.
thew hold their conv-books in their
hands This is all thev education theyre-
ceive in the urinary schools
Besides the urinary there are four
sunerior schools. exceDt the military and
naval schools, and the school of medi-
cine established in 1880. and outside of
these no education is to be had. Wealthy
men enoape Europcan teachers to help
their children ir the study of LANGUAGES
and modern science. but the common
neonIe have TO satisfy themselves with
the little that is to be obtained at the
urinary schools If any one is isastonishcd
that the governing class in Turkey
generally talk French, and often Eng
Iish, Greek, Italian and German, it may
be stated that the Turk has an aptitude,
like the Russian, for tongues, and makes
his necessity the mother of his--study.
During the reign of Sultan Abdul
Mediid, some thirty-fve years ago, an
effort was made to snread normal schools
throughout the Empire, but without
success. It is only during the reign Of
| the present Sultan that the matter of
education has been earnestly taken up.
In the course of cight or nine wears, the
Administration of Public instruction has
established throughout the Empire in
Europe, Asia and Africa, three hundred
and elohtv-eieht primary and normal
schools, and last year there were twenty
thousand and ninety-thrce students.
Besides these, there are eighty pri-
mary and normal schools in Constanti-
nople, in which there are five hundred
and forty students. two hundred and
oovan+v-fvo boinn i'm the free school. the